Skyline Drive, Virginia
While driving from Harrisonburg, Virginia to Washington, DC today, I took the scenic route and caught a glimpse of this marvelous owl on the side of the road on the famous Skyline Drive.
The Winter Light in Princeton
The trees are budding already on the Princeton campus. The daffodil shoots are coming up. There will be crocuses soon. But before everything turns green, I wanted to capture some images of the campus near dusk at this time of the year. The long beams of winter light break through the bare tree limbs, casting …
“I’m lookin’ for the man who shot my paw”
“You and your puncture wounds,” MJ said as she prepared to do a little surgery. MJ is, as we’ve stated before, lovely and talented, but also eminently practical and resourceful, a kind of female McGyver. Or perhaps Norm Abram. “The right tool for the job,” she said as she packed off for the pharmacy to …
Mining Heaven
ZIPAQUIRÁ, Colombia, March 20. The things we do for faith. Deep in the silver mines of Potosi, Bolivia, where men labor more than ten hours a day and some still drill holes for dynamite charges without power tools, the miners have made an image of the devil out of clay. And they give the devil …
I am Radio
The lovely and talented MJ discovered this the other day and sent it my way. In the future, to invoke Andy Warhol, everyone will have their own iProduct.
Semana Santa in Colombia
I’ll have some stories on my final days here in Colombia, but I thought I’d share some photos from the past few days, in Cartagena, Santa Marta and Zipaquirá.
Taganga, Colombia
Greetings from Taganga, a little fishing village turned backpacker hangout, on the Atlantic coast of northern Colombia. We stopped here for a night en route to the Tayrona National Park. Last night and this morning, I hung out on the beach and enjoyed the scenery. Here are a few images to share.
Bogotá, Colombia
It rained our first day here, so MJ and I did mostly indoor stuff like museums, but also found my bank’s ATM, and booked some later excursions. Here are some images from the collection of works by Fernando Botero, Colombia’s most famous artist. You’ve likely seen his chubby sculptures or paintings, which show up …
Tossing Penguins
Why would you ask grown adults to toss a stuffed penguin back and forth for several minutes? Especially in the hallway at a professional conference? Well, it’s my goofy little way to teach video journalists the craft of shooting sequences of shots, at various angles and focal lengths, and then edit on the action. Here’s …